Hello everyone and welcome to Part 6 of Trapped Together! Fun Fact: I was originally planning for this story to be just a one-shot but when I got to writing it, well, let's just say that it would have been rushed and really bad and not a very good first impression. I'm glad that I decided on splitting it up into parts so I could explain scenes together. Anyhoo, on with the story! Enjoy!
As daybreak broke, or so it seemed, May woke up to find herself in her mentor's arms. Memories of the moments before she drifted off came flashing into her mind as she blushed wildly, but didn't try to break out of the caring arms she was in, she liked the warm feeling of them, so decided to stay put until she heard the owner of said arms stir and slowly open his eyes and they widened when he saw his pupil so close to him and her sapphire eyes looking into his deep auburn. He too, remembered what happened last night and blushed but unlike May, decided to break the position they were in.
"M-morning M-m-may!" Ash stuttered as he greeted the girl he had slept next to a good morning looking everywhere but the girl he was talking to.
"Morning Ashy!" May said feeling completely different than Ash. She was disappointed that Ash had moved his caring arms from her, but atleast she still had his shoulder as a soft pillow!
Ash also realized this.
"M-may, you can get off now..." Ash blushed even more than before.
"No!" May said giggling "I wanna stay!" Ash heard this and gained a deeper red than he had ever seen in his life. May, who had just realized what she could do in this moment, sat up from his shoulder and stared at his auburn eyes still looking at every tile of the tomb except for ones in May's direction. "Don't you like a girl's touch Ashy?" May said seductively trying to hold back and laughs as she saw her mentor physically break down in front of her. At hearing this, Ash did just that. He was so red he looked that he was to pop any second.
"D-d-d-d-d-d-do y-y-y-y-y-you h-h-h-h-have t-t-t-to s-s-s-say i-i-i-it l-l-l-like t-t-t-that?" Ash barely even spoke due to his embarrassment. May couldn't hold back the laughs she had been storing since she first looked at Ash's embarrassed expression and, much like the day before, broke into a laughing fit. May's laughing woke the three other members of the room. Tailow had slept on the tomb, it probably didn't know what it was, Treecko was sat on the opposite side of the door to Ash and May, but not to his knowledge, a certain fire type had snuggled into the grass type's grip after getting inspiration from her trainer also making the gecko blush when he saw Torchic.
"T-tre-e-ek-k-ko!" The gecko said as it's eyes opened wide to the site of the sleeping chicken wrapped in his touch.
"Torchic!" the fire type refused to move from the gecko's warm skin, but unlike Ash, Treecko didn't go full red, it kept it's usual mood and pushed Torchic in closer much to it's liking.
"Tailow..." the blue bird stared at his trainer as he out right refused something he wanted most.
"See?" May said looking at Treecko and Torchic "Treecko's allowed for Torchic to stay where it wants to be, why not me?" May pouted to Ash.
"W-well you c-can go b-back the-there if y-y-" Ash was cut off from his stuttering to see an extremely happy May
"Yay!" May squealed as she once again rested her head in her mentor's shoulder "Thanks Ashy!" May smiled looking into his auburn eyes. Ash had stopped blushing as mad as he was before to just tints of red on his cheeks.
"Anytime May." Ash smiled as he stared into May's sapphire eyes not the red from his face completely gone, but not for long.
"I love you, Ashy." May said as she quickly fell back to sleep again on the now, once again, blushing trainer. He just stared off into the distance until he finally brought up the courage to say something in return.
"I love you too, May" He said, surprisingly, he didn't blush like everything else that had happened in the past couple of minutes, that line just felt natural to say. Ash kissed May's forehead before resting his arm on her shoulder once more and head on hers and went back to sleep with his now girlfriend.
Brock had been running around all night trying to find a way to get out of Petalburg woods. He finally began to feel tired as he walked through the woods with his arms like a zombie. Pikachu had been completely knocked out on Brock's shoulder.
"There's no end to this damn place!" Brock exclaimed as he walked down yet another familiar path. "I'm gonna faint an-OH MY ARCEUS!" Brock suddenly felt as if he hadn't felt he wasn't tired standing up straight, knocking a certain electric type to the floor in the process, and sprinted at a young girl wearing a straw hat and a dark green dress with long, blonde hair sat by a lake surrounded by wild forest pokemon (A/N Rich girl ORAS sprite/model). "Hello my darling!" Brock said in a deep voice startling the young girl and the pokemon around her. "My name's Brock and I happen to think that you are the most beautiful flower in this forest!" This caused the scared girl to giggle at Brock's attempt to win her over. "I would give you a flower," Brock said trying to hide that he forgot to bring a flower "but that would be an insult to your beauty giving you one of those who are under you!"
"Why hello Brock," the girl said not being scared by Brock's sudden approach anymore "my name's Cyndi! Thank you for the wonderful compliment" the girl said with a bright smile on her young face. She looked barely older than Brock by a few months.
"Ah! Cyndi! What a beautiful name for a beautiful girl such as yourself!" Brock said still in a romantic voice.
"But, I have a boyfriend, well fiancee!" Cyndi showed Brock her ring. It was silver with jewels making it sparkle.
"F-fiancee?!" Brock said feeling completely defeated "How could someone beat me to such a beautiful sight! How?!" Cyndi giggled at Brock's words. Brock then remembered that Ash and May were still stuck somewhere underground losing air as they spoke. "AH!" Brock screamed startling Cyndi once again "I forgot about my friends in Phantom's Tomb!"
"Phantom's Tomb?!" Cyndi exclaimed like she knew the place "Oh no, it's here?!" Brock then looked at Cyndi with confusion.
"Do you know of the place?" Brock asked with curiosity.
"Yes, my great great granddaddy died in one of those horrible places!" Cyndi replied clearly holding back tears.
"That's horrible!" Brock gasped "I'm so sorry!"
"Why are you apologizing?" Cyndi laughed now seeming in a better mood "It's not your fault!"
"Right." Brock scratched his head suddenly remembering why he was up all night. "Oh! I need to ask you something!"
"What is it?" Replied Cyndi.
"I need help to get my friends out of Phantom's Tomb so I was going to go to either Rustboro City or Petalburg City and contact the local police force to send a search and rescue, I've been looking for it for hours on end!" Brock chuckled as he explained his situation to Cyndi "I was wondering if you knew which was closer?"
"I just came from Rustboro City, I don't see how you got lost, the path from the entrance of the forest on the Petalburg side leads straight to Rustboro City!" Cyndi giggled "But I'll show you the way, c'mon quick!" Brock nodded and procedded to follow Cyndi but quickly remembered that Pikachu wasn't with him.
"Cyndi! Wait!" Brock called "My friend's Pikachu is missing!"
"Pikachu!" said a very angry Pikachu. It was full of dirt marks.
"Oh, there you are!" Brock said as he picked up the mouse pokemon. "C'mon Pikachu, we need to follow Cyndi to Rustboro!" Pikachu's mood soon changed when he heard that Brock had finally gotten them to Rustboro City.
I really enjoyed writing this chapter, both of the scenes were funny in my opinion with Ash's embarrassment and then Brock's confession of love to Cyndi only to be turned down, cold. Anyway, stay tuned for more!